Charlotte Paul
{{Short description|New Zealand doctor, epidemiologist and emeritus professor}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Charlotte Paul
| image = Charlotte Paul 627 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Paul in 2007
| alma_mater = University of Otago
| thesis_title = The role of steroid contraception in the aetiology of breast cancer : a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
| thesis_year = 1992
| thesis_url = https://otago.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64OTAGO_INST/qef3lj/alma9960119501891
| doctoral_students = Ann Richardson, Lianne Parkin
}}
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Charlotte Entrican Paul (born 1948) is a New Zealand doctor, epidemiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Otago.
Early life and education
Paul was born in 1948, the second daughter of publishers Janet and Blackwood Paul and sister of the artist Joanna Paul.{{Cite web |title=Paul, Charlotte (Dr), 1948– |url=https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.118866 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=tiaki.natlib.govt.nz |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508030508/https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.118866 |url-status=live }} She completed her PhD at the University of Otago in 1992.{{Cite book |last=Paul |first=Charlotte |url=https://otago.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64OTAGO_INST/qef3lj/alma9960119501891 |title=The role of steroid contraception in the aetiology of breast cancer : a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand |year=1992 |oclc=429793935 |access-date=7 October 2022 |archive-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123042119/https://otago.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?&context=L&vid=64OTAGO_INST:DUNEDIN&search_scope=all&tab=all&docid=alma9960119501891 |url-status=live }}
Career
Paul became an associate professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago in 1993.{{Cite journal |date=26 January 1994 |title=News |journal=New Zealand Medical Journal |volume=107 |issue=970 |pages=21}} She is an emeritus professor in the same department.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Emeritus Professor Charlotte Paul |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/healthsciences/expertise/Profile/?id=633 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en-nz |archive-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009142719/https://www.otago.ac.nz/healthsciences/expertise/Profile/?id=633 |url-status=live }} Her fields of research have included HIV/Aids, women's cancers, screening, contraception and epidemiology. She directed the Aids Epidemiology Group for 20 years, monitoring HIV/Aids in New Zealand.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Charlotte Paul |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/charlotte-paul |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=The Spinoff |date= 17 May 2020|archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007225535/https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/charlotte-paul |url-status=live }}
In the 2020s Paul became concerned about the use of puberty blockers to delay the normally-timed puberty of children. She wrote articles for the New Zealand weekly magazine The Listener,{{Cite web |last=Paul |first=Charlotte |title=Identity crisis: Have we gone too far in letting kids change their gender?|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/identity-crisis-have-we-gone-too-far-in-letting-kids-change-their-gender/TT4LEA5FS7JYWFYWWCCBAEB6JM/ |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=New Zealand Herald/The Listener |archive-date=27 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127102121/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/identity-crisis-have-we-gone-too-far-in-letting-kids-change-their-gender/TT4LEA5FS7JYWFYWWCCBAEB6JM/ |url-status=live }} and the monthly magazine North and South.{{Cite web |last=Paul |first=Charlotte |title=A terrible trap: Is our Ministry of Health failing to respond adequately to the rise in puberty blockers? |url=https://northandsouth.co.nz/2023/12/24/puberty-blockers-new-zealand/ |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=North and South |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303233407/https://northandsouth.co.nz/2023/12/24/puberty-blockers-new-zealand/ |url-status=live }} She was also quoted in a Radio New Zealand story{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Ruth |title=Puberty blocker use jumps as expert backs results |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475757/puberty-blocker-use-jumps-as-expert-backs-results |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=Newsroom |date=29 September 2022 |archive-date=10 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110035206/https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475757/puberty-blocker-use-jumps-as-expert-backs-results |url-status=live }} questioning New Zealand's guidelines on puberty blockers, with Paul stating, "The New Zealand Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care do not refer to the fact that this is an unapproved indication, or to the Medical Council guidelines and the need to ensure that patients know that this is an unapproved indication,", and the story stating, "New Zealand was out of step with many other countries, which were moving to a more cautious approach, she said." In early 2023, the New Zealand Ministry of Health removed a line stating that puberty blockers "are a safe and fully reversible medicine" from its website.{{Cite web |last=Daalder |first=Marc |title=Trans health advice scrubbed after complaints |url=https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/03/23/trans-health-advice-scrubbed-after-complaints/ |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=Newsroom |date=23 March 2023 |archive-date=2 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202113820/https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/03/23/trans-health-advice-scrubbed-after-complaints/ |url-status=live }}
Notable doctoral students of Paul's include Ann Richardson and Lianne Parkin.{{Cite thesis |title=Risk factors for venous thromboembolism |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10523/8329 |last=Parkin |first=Lianne |publisher=OUR Archive, University of Otago |date=2008 |hdl=10523/8329 |type=PhD thesis}}{{Cite thesis |last=Richardson |first=Ann |title=Evaluation of a pilot breast cancer screening programme |publisher=OUR Research |year=2020 |url=https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/10091 |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007130059/https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/10091 |url-status=live}}
Personal life
Selected works
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- Paul, Charlotte (12 October 2011) [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/charlotte-paul-keep-the-ethical-safeguards-in-medical-research/CGDWZ4EASZUY4LD37MLP4SND6I/ 'Keep the ethical safeguards in medical research'] New Zealand Herald
- Paul, Charlotte (December 2019) [https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/epidemics-expose-public-health-failures 'Epidemics expose public health failures'] Newsroom.
- Paul, Charlotte (17 May 2020) [https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-05-2020/covid-19-and-the-common-good 'Covid-19 and the common good'.] The Spinoff
References
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External links
- [https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/46906/paul-family Photo of the Paul family in Te Ara, ca 1959]
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Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:New Zealand epidemiologists
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:New Zealand public health doctors